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== Main Protagonist''' / '''Kouichi Watase''' / '''Takeru Iwase ==

'''Voiced by: [[Hiroshi Kamiya]] (Kouichi Watase in the Dramadrama CDs)'''

Like his predecessor of ''Tokimeki Memorial 1'', Naoto Takami, he doesn't have a fixed name in the main games. However, he has two different (non-canon) names in other medias: in the Dramadrama CDs, his name is Kouichi Watase, and in the novel ''Kimi no Ushiro Sugata'', he's called Takeru Iwase.

* [[Heroic Mime]]: Just like Naoto: it's a variation of this trope, as he does speaks a lot with others characters, but he’she's the only one of the characters who’swho's not voiced, as part of the Player Avatar thing.

* [[Nice Guy]]: He's the kind of guy who will always selflessly help the others, without taking care of his own feelings. This is what gets him all the girls to fall in love with him in the ''Substories'' and Dramadrama CD storylines, and [[Love Hurts|conversly hurt them a lot]], as this trait is combined with...

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: ''Very'' likely to become [[Heroes Want Redheads|Hikari]]'s, unlike Naoto with Shiori. He can also become this to other characters depending on if he met them in his childhood days, and scores them in the end. Among those characters are {{spoiler|Akane, Homura, Mei, Miho, and Miyuki}}.

The heroine of the Hibikino Saga. A sweet [[Genki Girl]] who was quite the crybaby in her childhood, she loves sports and is a member of the Track & Field Club. She is childhood friends with the protagonist, but they were separated in their younger days. 8 years after this event, on School Enterance Day, they meet again. She’sShe's the main love goal of the protagonist at the start of the game. Her best friend is Kotoko Minaduki, and they know each other since Junior High.

* {{spoiler|[[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Her [[Happy Ending]], as she feels she and the protagonist will be separated from each other like when they were young after Graduation, and she doesn't want to live that ever again.}}.

* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: {{spoiler|inIn the [[Snowed In]] Event told below, the protagonist, seeing Hikari tired, tells her to sleep, while he stays awake and waits for the train back to service announcement, promising her to wake her up at the announcement. As she sleeps on his shoulder, the protagonist will remember he forgot to give her his Christmas present, and if you chose to give her glass earrings (her favourite item), [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|in order to let her rest and to give her a surprise]], he'll put them on her all while she sleeps.}}.

* [[Easier Than Easy]]: She’sShe's the easiest character in ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'' to get the ending of, in stark contrast to [[Nintendo Hard|the previous game’sgame's heroine, Shiori]].

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: theThe whole point of her Childhood Mode event “Jealousy"Jealousy~”".

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: She’s just as bad as Kotoko on this matter, {{spoiler|and it’llit'll land you a bad ending if you decide to chase after Hikari instead of Kotoko, in Kotoko’s ending wher both of them are in love with the protagonist}}.

* [[Sand in My Eyes]]: Uses this excuse in her ''Memories Ringing On'' route to cover her [[Tears of Joy|tears of relief]], {{spoiler|after the protagonist clears the misunderstanding caused by the [[Not What It Looks Like]] moment between him and Kotoko (Homura was running in the hallway and bumped into him while he was discussing with Kotoko, causing him to fall over Kotoko)}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Snowed In]]: Happens in one of her last major events before her love confession, during a date at the ski slopes in the winter season. A sudden blizzard occurs, stopping the train service between the mountain and Hibikino City, and forcing Hikari and the protagonist to take shelter in the ski resort's train station and wait until the lines work again for a whole night.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Trying Not to Cry]]: Played utterly straight in her Ending, as part of her [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|The scene is emotionally powerful]] thanks to Junko Noda's superb performance, and that you can see Hikari's eyes progressively welling up with tears as she speaks.}}.

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: ''Very'' likely to become one in the main game, and {{spoiler|[[Official Couple|becomes one]]}} in both the Dramadrama CDs and [[Novelization|the novel]] ''Kimi no Ushiro Sugata''.

* {{spoiler|[[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: During one of her story paths in ''Memories Ringing On'', she shows the protagonist a picture of her and Hikari from middleschool where she had short hair while Hikari had [[Rapunzel Hair|long hair]]. Quite interesting that their hair lengths are switched in the present.}}.

* [[Image Song]]: Seven of them, plus a duet one with Hikari. Her main song is "Suki to Ienakute" (= "[[Cannot Spit It Out|Unable To Say 'I love You']]").

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Woo boy, she’sshe's the poster girl for this trope in the whole series!

* [[Matchmaker Crush]]: … if…if the protagonist successfully pursues Kotoko, it’llit'll fall into this trope, despite how much Kotoko resists this.

** Possibly a case of [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Given Kotoko's personality, she would have supported ''wholeheartedly'' the "Minaduki" romanization, as the Nihon-Shiki system was created by Japanese, for Japanese, as an answer to the westernWestern Hepburn system.

* [[Image Song]]: 8 of them, the main one being "Arashi Ga Hajimaru Toki" (= "The Moment The Storm Begins").

* [[Not a Morning Person]]: She has an unusual habit of falling asleep -... in her own homeroom class!

Miho’sMiho's younger twin sister. She studies at Kirameki High, {{spoiler|and is friends with Yuko Asahina}}. Unlike her sister, she’sshe's a down-to-earth, wild and playful character. [[Ensemble Darkhorse|One of the most-liked characters of the game in the fandom]].

* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Reaching 90 cm in 3rd year, she has the fifth (ex aequo with ''Tokimeki Memorial 3'''s Emi Tachibana) biggest cup size in the series , behind {{spoiler|fellow model}} Mira, as well as Akane, Patricia and Mari. Her breast size is one of the few ways to see who is Miho and who is Maho in their [[Twin Switch]] game (Maho has the biggest cup size), and she makes good use of them in two special Events, wearing a bold bikini at the beach and a sexy [[Fortune Teller]] outfit at the School Festival to please the protagonist, and this works so well [[Crowning Moment of Funny|it also attracts all male attention around her in the process]]. Plus, {{spoiler|she becomes a model after graduating}}.

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: As a secret character, the fact she was Miho's twin sister was back then a big surprise, but nowadays, it's known fact and even the official Konami site lists her along the regular characters.

* [[Image Song]]: 6 of them, plus a duet with Akane and Homura. She's notable for being the only character with two [[Image SongsSong]]s using the same music base, with different lyrics: "Happy Choudai!" and "Uehre [[Aare]] Uwie [[Goinn]]?" (Horriblyhorribly mangled [[Gratuitous English]] for "Where are we going?").

* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Even the most disasterous situations seem to do no more injury to her than to leave her dazed and her hair frazzled, such as during the protagonist's first encounter with her {{spoiler|when she gets run over by a truck! And this will happen two more times before he can get his first date with her!}}!

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With her cheerful and genuine personnality, she has a knack at creating those. She's best friends with the calm and gentle Miho, becomes friends with the [[Broken Bird|emotionally closed-to-others]] Kaori in ''Dancing Summer Vacation'', and even more surprisingly, forms a deep friendship with {{spoiler|Kotoko}} of all people in the Dramadrama CDs, to the point she lets Miyuki get away with calling her {{spoiler|Mina-pon}}!

* [[Everything Is's Better Withwith Penguins]]: She ''loves'' penguins, to the point of wearing a penguin suit at one point of the game.

* [[Otaku Surrogate]]: Her idea of a date at the movies is watching [[Mecha]] [[Anime]].

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: {{spoiler|In her Christmas special Event.}}.

* [[This Is a Drill]]: Her [[Weapon of Choice]], coming from her favourite Mecha anime, ''[[Show Within a Show|Go-Driller]]''.

* [[Tomboy]]: She rarely wears girl's clothes. Also, {{spoiler|during her Childhood Event, she's mistaken for a boy by the protagonist}}.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Her [[Bragging Theme Tune]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avycjPEe-hE Musicmusic Videovideo Clipclip] in ''Tokimeki Memorial 2 Music Video Clips: Circus de Aimashou''.

Rei Ijuin’sIjuin's little sister. A computer nut with a haughty attitude, she’sshe's a year younger than the rest of the cast and thus will join the game in 2nd year as the protagonist’sprotagonist's kohai, even though she ignores completely this convention and will order him and everyone else around, calling them with the rude pronoun “Kisama”"Kisama". She actually has a cute side, but she doesn’tdoesn't like to show it. She’sShe's Homura’sHomura's sworn enemy.

* [[Got the Whole World In My Hand]]: Does a variant of this in her Musicmusic Videovideo Clipclip of the PS2 game ''Circus de Aimashou'': in a sequence, the Earth is floating in front of her outstretched arms.

* [[Image Song]]: 8 of them, as well as two duet ones, one with Akane and Homura, and one with Kasumi. Strangely, one of her two main songs (the other being "Super Special Day") and adaptation of her [[Leitmotif]] in the game, "The Most Electric Girl in the World", never got neither a full version, nor a proper CD release, being only available in ''Circus de Aimashou'', as Mei's short Musicmusic Videovideo Clipclip. Also of note, is the fact that all of her songs' name are written in English, save for "Black Dahlia" (written in katakana) and "Rakuen".

* [[King Incognito|Lady Incognito]]: She liked to do this in her childhood, {{spoiler|and this is how she meets the protagonist in the Childhood part of the game}}.

** More specifically, {{spoiler|during her childhood years, the protagonist was one of the only kids whom she got to play with, and only once. He promised to meet her again, not knowing that his family was moving out of town the very next day, and he wouldn't have time to say goodbye. This is presented as the reason for her contempt towards "untrustworthy" common people.}}.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: She’s [[Take Over the World|Yuina]]’s's disciple for crying out loud!

* [[Verbal Tic]]: She ends all her sentences with “no"no da”da" and “na"na no da”da". In her childhood days, it was just “no”"no" and “na"na no”no".

Manager of the Baseball Club. {{spoiler|Partway during the game, she transfers to Hokkaido.}}. She's also conscious about her figure, thinking she's very chubby.

* [[Cute Sports Club Manager]]: {{spoiler|ofOf both Hibikino, and later Daimon High's Base-BallBaseball Clubs.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]}}: Particulary in ''Memories Ringing On'', as {{spoiler|Kaedeko's father is firmly opposed to the idea that Kaedeko goes at Hibikino University after her High School time at Daimon High is over, thus needing her to take a lodging at Hibikino and live alone. It'll take much convincing from Kaedeko and one of her relatives, and much patience and determination from the protagonist to make him relent}}.

* [[Holding Hands]]: {{spoiler|In the last shot of her Ending}}.

* [[Informed Ability]]: She's touted as what can be considered as Kaori's closest friend, yet they have about zero interaction in the games. Averted, however, in the [[Novelization|novel]] ''Anata o Shinjiteru'', where they have a ''real'' close friendship that plays a ''vital'' role in getting Kaori better. {{spoiler|Kaedeko even goes as far as taking a 3-hours train trip immediately after she called Kaori, who was at the time horribly depressed due to a misunderstanding with her love interest Shunta and thus didn't want to talk with her, so she can confort and help Kaori.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[I Will Wait for You]]: The choice you have to pick in the last set of choices, to get her Ending in ''Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories: Memories Ringing On''}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Long-Distance Relationship]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Lost Forever]]: If you fail to put Kaedeko in Tokimeki Status by the time she moves away, you won't get her ending, no matter how many phone calls you'll give her afterwards.}}.

* [[Tears of Joy]]: In several Events, and most notably {{spoiler|in her Ending}}.

Her scenario and personnality led her to become ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'''s [[Ensemble Darkhorse|favourite character in the fandom]], to the point of getting her own [[Novelization|novel]] (out of two released for this game, the first having Hikari as its heroine), ''Anata o Shinjiteru'' (''"I Believe In You"''), as well as a lot of merchandise centered around her.

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: Averted, per virtue of [[What Could Have Been]]. According to one of the [[All There in the Manual|Hibikino Watcher magazines]], during the game's development, [[Word of God|the creators]] pondered about the idea she would kill herself out of depression during the course of the game, but they ultimately scrapped this idea, believing that was going too far for a ''[[Tastes Like Diabetes|Tokimeki Memorial]]'' [[Tastes Like Diabetes|game]], and instead went with the more neutral and open [[Lost Forever|"dropped Hibikino High and course unknown"]] route.}}.

* [[Expy]]: It's maybe stretching it, but she shares ''a lot'' of similarities with Raizze Haimer of ''Tokimemo 1'' 's [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'' (released 2 years before ''Tokimemo 2''): both are silent, coldish and soft-spoken girls who avoid contact with others, and thus [[Defrosting Ice Queen|need to be defrosted]] in order for them to fall in love with you; both have very low Love Growth rates and thus are [[Nintendo Hard]] characters; and both can be {{spoiler|[[Lost Forever]] in a terribly [[Tear Jerker]] way if they're not enough in love with you}}. Add to that that both of them are the absolute [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] of their respective games...

* [[Fan Service with a Smile]]: If the Event where Kaori overcomes her wounds has occured, if she's in Tokimeki Status with the protagonist, and {{spoiler|if you choose to do a Café Shop for the 3rd Year School Festival, she'll wear [[Meido|a maid outfit]] while serving as the Café's waitress}}. This Event is another proof that [[He's Back|She's Back]], [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|as she's smiling happily and is visibly having a fun time doing this]].

* [[Genki Girl]]: As part of the [[He's Back|She's Back]] trope, during the third year, when her backstory has been revealed, and she decides to join the Volley-BallVolleyball Club, she literally embodies this trope. She is one of the few girls that you will constantly meet in the third year once they are in love with you (possibly as a way to make up for the lack of Kaori in the first two years). Incidentally on another note, her [[Leitmotif]] theme tune also changes from the somber, quiet tune to a more peppy, cheerful tune in the third year.

* [[Image Song]]: 8 of them like most of the girls, but they have an interesting pattern specific to her character: half of them are slow, heartwrenching themes fitting her [[Heroic BSOD]] period ("Ouju no Sasayaki", "Tsukiyo no Koneko", "Aoi Tori", and "Hikaru Nami"), and the other half are upbeat, cheerful, and heartwarming themes representative of her [[She's Back]] period ("Hoshizora no Yoru ni", "Haru no Frill", "Steppin' to Love", and "Kocchi o Muite").

* [[Leave Me Alone]]: "Watashi no koto o kamawanaide" (="Don't mind about me") is pretty much her [[Catch Phrase]] during her [[Heroic BSOD]] period.

* [[Onee-Sama]]: Her appearance near the very end of the game, when wearing her special Winter street clothes, exudes of this feeling. {{spoiler|[[Justified Trope|Justified]] since she's actually one year older than the protagonist, and has matured after recovering from her [[Heroic BSOD]]}}. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the protagonist on New Year's day of 3rd Year.

* [[Sitting on the Roof]]: The school roof is Kaori's favourite place in Hibikino High's campus, as people rarely go there, so she can find the solitude she wishes for and can relax there. It's the place where the Mainmain Protagonistprotagonist will meet her for the first time, and {{spoiler|as a [[Book Ends]], where she'll give him her [[Love Confession]] at the end of the game if they become sweethearts.}}.

* [[You Must Be Cold]]: {{spoiler|In her 3rd year Christmas Event. She even [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] the coat-sharing trope in the dialogue}}.

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Reaching 92 cm in 3rd year, she has the biggest bust size amongst the Hibikino Saga characters;, and she's definitely the strongest female in the game, (see [[Megaton Punch]] as well as [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|Does Not Know Her Own Strength]] below).

* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]: {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Funny|as the protagonist discovers]] in her [[Happy Ending]], when she hugs him.}}.

* [[Qipao]]: {{spoiler|In her 3rd year Christmas Event, one of those attracts her eye. The protagonist, noticing this, promptly encourages her to try it on, and seeing how it pleases her, he buys it as her Christmas present from him. She tries to protest at first due to the cost, but he convinces her by saying he was saving money for this moment and purpose.}}.

* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Her pet monkey, Daisy.

* [[Theme Naming]] / [[Flower Motifs]]: The Nozaki family is named after flowers. Sumire is "Violet" in Japanese, and Daisy, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well...]]

* [[Match Maker Quest]]: In May of 2nd year, Jun will phone you to confess he loves a girl. You can help him get close to her by scheduling a double date between you, him, his love interest, and Hikari. And if his target girl isn't the same as yours, he'll get [[Shipper on Deck]] 'd to the max by the protagonist.

* [[Training from Hell]]: If you ask him to help you training for a contest requiring high physical stamina, he ''will'' put you through this. Just ask the Mainmain Protagonistprotagonist in ''Dancing Summer Vacation''.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In ''Memories Ringing On'', if you choose the "Hikari &and Kotoko" route, at one moment, he will punch the Mainmain Protagonistprotagonist in the face and scold him sharply for putting Hikari, Jun's love interest in this game, through emotional hell, as the Mainmain Protagonistprotagonist can't decide between her and Kotoko.

* [[Older Than They Look|Older Than He Looks]]: See also the [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] entry above.

Mei Ijuin’sIjuin's personal butler. He also serves as a bodyguard to Mei and always carries a handgun with him for self defense. As he is Mei's bodyguard, he always accompanies Mei on the player's dates with her until she is in love with the player (after which she will stop Sakunoshin from following her). He also serves as a bouncer to the family’sfamily's [[Big Fancy House]]. Much like Sotoi, he is gay and also a narcissist. Should the player raise their fashion sense high enough then, again like Sotoi, Mihara will fall in love with the player. He will also try to confess his feelings to the player at the end of the game, complete with roses intended for the player, but he will always be interrupted by Mei and then dismissed before he gets a chance.

Despite having the same family name, down to the same kanji combination, he’s not related to Shiki Mihara of ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl’sGirl's Side''.

* [[Deathbringer the Adorable]]: His surname combined with his appearance gives students the impression that he might have a temper, but in actuality, he is far from it.

The boss of the delinquents. He will challenge you if the player beats all of his subordinates. {{spoiler|If, however, you are trying to win with Akane, then you will have to face him as he is revealed to be her brother.}}.

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him Sou-Bancho]]: His actual name is {{spoiler|Kaoru Ichimonji (the brother of Akane)}}, but everyone addresses him by his title.

* {{spoiler|[[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: To Akane.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Megaton Punch]]: He is often on the receiving end of his younger sister Akane's punch for interfering in her private life.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[My Sister Is Off-Limits]]: He is very protective of his younger sister Akane.}}.

** {{spoiler|This is explained after the player goes through the "[[Playing House]]" event with Akane in Childhood mode. Turns out Akane became broken hearted after the protagonist moved away, and since then, her brother swore to punish any boy who hurts her.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Bound and Gagged|Put In A Sack And Gagged]]: In the [[Funny Background Event]] of the last shot of Akane's [[Happy Ending.]]}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Relationship Sabotage]]: He constantly tries to do this between Akane and the protagonist, but fails each time.}}.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Wears a cap with its top cut-off, revealing his bald <s> [[Bald of Evil|Of Evil]]</s> head.

The youngest member of Sou-Banchou's "Four Heaven Kings". Real name Kouji Yotsuya. A base-ballBaseball clubClub member, he's a nice, but earnest, hot-blooded and careless youth. He's also, unlike Kinniku-Banchou and Kogarashi-Banchou, a sore loser when defeated.

* [[Theme Naming]] / [[Flower Motifs]]: Just like in Sumire's entry. [[wikipedia:Strelitzia|Strelitzia]] is a South Africa flower, better known under the name of "Bird of Paradise Flower".

[[The Ace|Ace]] of Daimon High's Baseball Club, the main rival school of Hibikino High in the road towards the Koshien (i.e. the National Inter-High Baseball Championship). A flamboyant and somewhat arrogant young man, he has a crush on the club's manager {{spoiler|Kaedeko when she transfers there}}. In ''Memories Ringing On'', it's mentioned that after his High School time, {{spoiler|he's tackling on the challenge of entering the Major League and become a professional player}}. He also gets a quick mention in the novel ''Anata o Shinjiteru'', revealing he regularyregularly phones {{spoiler|Kaedeko}}.

* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Plays this role in {{spoiler|Kaedeko}}'s storyline. He, however, comes off as a [[Graceful Loser]] once the main protagonist and his club beats Daimon High in the Koshien, and he realizes {{spoiler|Kaedeko}} is in love with the protagonist.

A track runner from Kirameki Highschool in ''Memories Ringing On'', and self proclamed rival to Hikari Hinomoto. {{spoiler|She is frustrated that Hikari doesn't take her challenges to a sprint race seriously because of her history of injuries in turn complicated by Hikari's belief in handicapping, as well as Hikari not going to a college recommended for track runners.}}.

A novel-only character, he's the main male protagonist of ''Anata o Shinjiteru'', and Kaori's love interest in that novel. He's not a novel-representation of the game's Mainmain Protagonistprotagonist though, Takeru Iwase of the same continuity taking that role, and also having a completely different circle of friends (he doesn't know Junichiro and Takumi, isn't Hikari's childhood friend, and is not in the same class as them -he's a student of the 2-F class, like Kaori and Sayo- for example).

A cheerful and hard-working member of Hibikino's Volley-BallVolleyball Club, extremely open and friendly to others, he actually was an [[Ill Boy]] forced to stay at his home most of the time until the start of his High School time. He's now healthy enough to have a normal school life and practice sports, but he still is a bit fragile, and is also prone to volley-ballvolleyball accidents: it's how he progressively gets closer to Kaori, who's sometimes on call at the infirmary. He's childhood friends with Sayo Tsukimura, but they bicker often, and he considers her more as a big sister.

* [[The Power of Trust]]: Invokes this in the infamous moment where, to prove Kaori his sincerity towards her after a messy misunderstanding between them, {{spoiler|he climbs on one of the rooftop's outdoors units and tells Kaori he will let himself fall off the building after a count of three, and that he places all his trust that she would take his hand and take him back to the rooftop before. And he was dead serious, as he had begun to let himself fall after the count, only to be [[Just in Time|barely caught]] by Kaori}}. As [[Narm|over-the-top, forced]], [[Dude, Not Funny|and poor in taste]] this is (both Sayo and [[Student Council President|Homura]] make sure [[What the Hell, Hero?|to chew him a new one after that]]), it tremendously works on Kaori.

A novel-only character appearing in ''Anata o Shinjiteru'', she's the captain of Hibikino's female Volley-BallVolleyball club team, the 2-F [[Class Representative]], and Shunta's childhood friend. She always took care of him in his younger ill days. She's protective of him, and treats him a bit like a child, leading to much bickering between them. She's, however, secretly deeply in love with him, but doesn't know how to tell him;, and seeing Kaori gradually getting closer from him is a great source of pain for her.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|She comes to sincerly regret her borderline-[[Moral Event Horizon]] moment where, after informing Shunta of the bad rumors about Kaori's past (who dismiss them and tells Sayo he trusts Kaori), she then meets Kaori and lies to her, by saying that Shunta told her she was disappointed of Kaori;... to the point she feels dirty. She largely makes it up by mustering the courage to talk to Shunta and Kaori, going [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] to the former and [[Graceful Loser]] to the latter.}}.

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: The members of the female volley-ballvolleyball team are ''big'' Sayo/Shunta fans at first, believing they're like [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|an loving old couple with their bickering]]. They later realize how close Shunta and Kaori are, and accept it.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: She justly [[Armor-Piercing Slap|Armor Piercing Slaps]] and chews out a new one on Shunta after his {{spoiler|dangerous rooftop stunt}}:

{{quote|'''Sayo''': "Don't you get it?! If it went wrong, Yae-san could have {{spoiler|fallen}} too!!"}}